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The result is a fairly schematic narrative: The young hothead of the early Celtic Revivalist years produces lovely impracticalities until 1914, when Ireland explodes; he learns about reality, becomes a great poet of civil war, and a modernist to boot; after 1925, or thereabouts, he becomes one of those "monuments of unageing intellect" about whom he writes in "Sailing to Byzantium"--the splendid complainer of the late verse.
Wang's famous painting of the Dwelling in the Qingbian Mountains (1366) explodes the myth of the artist's peaceful retreat in the hills.
Chinese New Year begins with a family dinner, and explodes with red banners and lion-dragon dances in the streets of Chinatown.
But SNL is incomplete without at least one sketch in which someone's car explodes or head gets blown off.
An article explodes the fallacy of safe sex.